Black UW-Madison students were among the recipients of a spate of racist text messages sent out this week that indicated they would need to show up at a specific location to be enslaved and pick cotton, the UW-Madison Police Department confirmed Friday.
University of Wisconsin-Madison students received racist text messages that went to Black Americans across the country, the UW Police Department said Friday. The texts reference slavery and were sent nationwide on Thursday, UWPD said.
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The near-majority of ejections, 22, were for underage alcohol possession. There were also two ejections for entering the playing surface and four ejections for trespassing.
Authorities said it happened around 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, in a southeast campus residence hall.
UW-Madison officials stated in a message to the campus community Monday that a sexual assault was reported last week.
UW informed students of on-campus incident occurring Oct. 22 via Crime Warning email sent Monday afternoon, no investigation currently underway.
The University of Wisconsin reported a sexual assault occurring in a Southeast Residence hall Tuesday, Oct. 22, according to a Crime Warning email sent to students Monday afternoon.
The incident occurred at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and the victim and alleged offender knew each other.
Cases against three of five people charged in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on UW-Madison’s campus last spring have been dismissed, while one paid a fine and another has the chance to see his case dismissed next year.
The brutal attack and sexual assault of a woman happened early the morning of Sept. 3, 2023, and left her fighting for her life. In the criminal complaint filed against Thompson, a Madison Police Department sergeant who was one of the first officers on the scene of the downtown assault described the victim’s injuries as “one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.”
According to a Dane County court filing obtained by 27 News, a lawyer for Brandon Thompson wrote to the judge “Defendant Brandon Thompson wishes to waive the upcoming motion hearing in his case, and wishes to instead enter a guilty plea.”
Less than two weeks after he signaled he would pursue an insanity defense, a man accused of a violent rape of a UW-Madison student last year in the city’s Downtown says he will plead guilty.
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UW-Madison police reported that 26 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and nine people were arrested during Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and Purdue.
Despite an entertaining and dominating performance by the Wisconsin Badgers at Camp Randall Saturday, some fans ran into law enforcement trouble. According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 26 people in total were ejected from the stadium during the game against Purdue. The total includes seven that were identified as UW students.
The agency reported four e-scooter thefts on the night of Wednesday, September 25 — one from outside the Educational Sciences building, one from outside Mechanical Engineering, and two from outside LaBahn Arena.
The two, Dahlia Saba and Vignesh Ramachandran, face disciplinary charges for allegedly “planning and carrying out an encampment on university lands.” Disciplinary charges were brought based on an op-ed co-authored by the two in The Cap Times where they critiqued the UW-Madison administration’s refusal to engage with protestor demands to divest from companies profiting off the genocide in Gaza.
Former UW Athletics employee Marcel Dubois is facing charges for spending upwards of $7000 using cards meant for student athletes.
Some of the women alleging Combs abused them are Black women, which may play a part in the doubt they faced. According to Chloe Grace Hart, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, this dates back to the 19th century, where the minimization of of Black women’s experiences of sexual violence in the United States was “actually written into law.”
Aformer University of Wisconsin athletic department employee has been ordered to repay more than $7,000 he stole from accounts belonging to former Badgers players.
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UW-Madison police said two of the bikes were stolen from outside Ogg Hall, Sellery Hall and the Zoology Research Building.
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Most who attended Saturday’s Wisconsin Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium were well behaved. Some, however, left with a citation, or with a police escort.
UW-Madison police reported that 19 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 11 people were arrested during Saturday’s football game between the Badgers and Alabama.
UWPD issued 11 citations, 10 of those to UW-Madison students. Additionally, 19 people were ejected from the game, 15 of those being UW-Madison students.
A UW-Madison Athletics Department employee is accused of spending thousands of dollars using per diem cards meant for student athletes, according to a criminal complaint obtained by WMTV 15 News on Thursday. Marcel Dubois, 51, is accused of several felony counts. He faces 12 counts of misappropriating ID information to obtain money and one misdemeanor charge of computer crime- access data.
Six UW-Madison students are without a home and most of their belongings after a fire ripped through their home early Wednesday morning. Ring Doorbell video footage shows the moments Lolly Walsh made a lifesaving knock on her neighbors’ door after noticing flames behind their home.
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This year, Wisconsin Athletics started selling alcohol at Camp Randall Stadium to the general public for the first time.
Attendees removed for unlawful behavior like underage drinking, fake IDs, possession of unauthorized alcohol, UWPD says.
Of the 47 people ejected, 37 were UW students, and all 18 who were arrested were UW students, police said in a statement detailing the numbers.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison police are investigating 2 incidents of vandalism on campus.
The most recent incident happened around 3am on Wednesday, September 4. UWPD found several parts of Library Mall, including the Hagenah Fountain, vandalized with paint. Facilities crews were able to clean up the graffiti.
UW-Madison Police say they are investigating after pro-Palestinian graffiti was found on several parts of Library Mall Wednesday morning, including the fountain.
Several parts of Library Mall, including the Hagenah Fountain, were vandalized with paint. Crews from Facilities Planning & Management worked quickly to remove the graffiti.
Police said the incident occurred at around 3 a.m. Hagenah Fountain and other parts of Library Mall were graffitied. Facilities Planning and Management crews removed the paint.
UW-Madison Police Department Executive Director of Communications Marc Lovicott told WMTV the vandalism was “pro-Palestine in nature.” Lovicott said there were statements in the vandalism like “divest now”, “we will not rest”, and “free Palestine.” He also said there were a few vulgar words.
The University of Wisconsin Police Department is investigating pro-Palestine paint left on Library Mall around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, according to a UWPD statement.
UW-Madison police said Wednesday that they are investigating a report of a person being groped by five or six people during Friday night’s Badgers football game at Camp Randall Stadium.
Extended periods of supervision after release from prison do little to improve public safety, according to Cecelia Klingele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School professor of criminal law. The long terms “may interfere with the ability of those on supervision to sustain work, family life and other pro-social connections to their communities,” she wrote in a 2019 study examining 200 revocation cases.
“Fewer, more safety-focused conditions will lead to fewer unnecessary revocations and more consistency in revocation for people whose behavior poses a serious threat to public safety,” she added.
Incident occurred at west campus residence hall early Sunday morning, victim and offender allegedly know each other.
The incident occurred at 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning and the individual did not report it to UWPD, according to an email UW-Madison sent to students Tuesday.
The line at a drinks-only concession stand outside Section I at Camp Randall Stadium in the second quarter Friday night stretched nearly to the other side of the concourse.
UW-Madison police reported that 27 people were ejected from Camp Randall Stadium and 10 people were arrested during Friday night’s season-opening football game between the Badgers and Western Michigan.
Two of the citations issued at the Friday night game were because of students attempting to use fake IDs to purchase alcohol, UWPD said.
According to statistics released by the UW-Madison Police Department Saturday, 27 people were ejected from the stadium during Friday’s game against Western Michigan. The total includes 11 who were identified as UW students.
UWPD is searching for any suspects and asks anyone with information to call 608-264-2677.
Crime warning emailed to students, UWPD investigating incident.
The victim reported being groped by five or six different people during the football game at Camp Randall, according to a university crime alert sent Friday.
According to a Bias Incident Report obtained by the Badger Herald, the suspects targeted members of the multicultural Sigma Psi Zeta sorority. One of the suspects threatened to kill a student whom they mistakenly believed to be Saudi Arabian, further heightening the severity of the situation.
Lukas Nowak was formally charged Monday for disrupting a November sorority meeting with racist threats and disorderly conduct.
A Madison man has been formally charged following an incident last fall inside a building on the UW-Madison campus where he’s accused of making threats and racist comments.
A criminal complaint filed in Dane County alleges that on Nov. 28, 2023 at around 11 p.m., Nowak and another man barged into a classroom where a group of sorority sisters were studying and practicing a dance.
Lukas Nowak was one of three men who entered several rooms in the Humanities building on November 28, 2023 and disrupted a student organization meeting by making threats and racist comments.
On November 28, the man, 20, and two other men disrupted a student organization meeting in the Humanities building, making racist and profane comments and threatening people in multiple rooms, according to UW-Madison Police spokesperson Marc Lovicott. The man was originally arrested Dec. 1.
Madison police said they found a 21-year-old man injured at an Anytime Fitness near the UW-Madison campus on Monday. The man is potentially tied to two sexual assaults that police said occurred at that same gym.
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Prosecutors dropped and amended charges against one of the four people arrested and charged during pro-Palestine protests on UW-Madison’s campus in May.
